-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-8749 2010-05-19 18:34:19 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : krb5 Product : Fedora 13 Version : 1.7.1 Release : 10.fc13 URL : http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/ Summary : The Kerberos network authentication system Description : Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system, which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure practice of cleartext passwords. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Shawn Emery discovered a remotely-triggerable null pointer dereference in the Kerberos GSS-API library which could be used to cause GSS-API-authenticated services to crash. This update incorporates fixes to instead correctly detect the error and return an error code. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue May 18 2010 Nalin Dahyabhai <[email protected]> 1.7.1-10 - add patch to correct GSSAPI library null pointer dereference which could be triggered by malformed client requests (CVE-2010-1321, #582466) * Tue May 4 2010 Nalin Dahyabhai <[email protected]> 1.7.1-9 - fix output of kprop's init script's "status" and "reload" commands (#588222) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #582466 - CVE-2010-1321 krb5: null pointer dereference in GSS-API library leads to DoS (MITKRB5-SA-2010-005) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582466 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update krb5' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
